City

Milo

$2,740 a yearproperty tax on a $200,000 home here, FY27, for every local government ($32.57 per $1,000 of taxable value)¹

$860 a yearof that goes to the city ($10.20 per $1,000)

$272,834property taxes the city levies, FY27

$612,088city budget, FY27, without city-run utilities (not yet reported)²

Who runs it

The city council passes ordinances, adopts the budget and sets the city’s property tax.

Christina RodgersMilo City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Daniel Kencade Amsden IIIMilo City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Eric RasmussenMilo City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Diane HallMilo Mayor · elected November 7, 2023
Jeff GriggsMilo City Council At-Large · elected November 7, 2023
Tangela MasonMilo City Council At-Large · elected November 7, 2023

Officials are worked out from election results: every member whose four-year term is still running, plus appointments and titles Iowa Funnel has been told about. A resignation may not show yet.

Meetings and agendas

What the council is deciding: each agenda, the resolutions and ordinances on it, and a plain-language summary.

Iowa Funnel doesn’t read this city’s agendas yet. Every council and board posts its agenda at least 24 hours before it meets.

Property taxes

How the bill is collected · What each levy is for

Who gets a property owner’s tax bill in Milo

Homes and businesses in most of Milo pay a combined $32.57 per $1,000 of taxable value (FY27). They pay it all to the Warren County treasurer, who passes each government its share; the city sets and gets only its own piece, $10.20. Estimate your bill.

Southeast Warren schools$15.4347%
City of Milo$10.2031%
Warren County$5.6517%
Des Moines Area Community College$0.812%
Warren County Assessor$0.351%
Warren County Extension (ISU Extension and Outreach)$0.12<1%

Rates over time

Per $1,000 of taxable value: the typical combined rate people in Milo pay, and the city government’s own piece of it.

Year	Combined	City’s own
FY20	$34.22	$11.50
FY21	$33.07	$11.55
FY22	$32.29	$11.25
FY23	$31.58	$11.11
FY24	$32.97	$11.00
FY25	$33.41	$10.90
FY26	$33.31	$10.89
FY27	$32.57	$10.20

Show the numbers

Year	Combined	City’s own
FY20	$34.22	$11.50
FY21	$33.07	$11.55
FY22	$32.29	$11.25
FY23	$31.58	$11.11
FY24	$32.97	$11.00
FY25	$33.41	$10.90
FY26	$33.31	$10.89
FY27	$32.57	$10.20

Compared with places this size³

Milo’s city property tax rate of $10.20 per $1,000 is the 35th lowest of 185 Iowa cities with 510–1,100 people. The middle of the group is $12.87.

See all 185

#	Place	Rate per $1,000	People
1	Exira	$24.81	766
2	Dayton	$22.51	766
3	Charter Oak	$21.32	521
4	Correctionville	$19.84	759
5	Villisca	$19.74	1,106
6	Pomeroy	$19.60	511
7	Allison	$19.06	937
8	Dumont	$19.04	614
9	Seymour	$18.78	646
10	Dexter	$18.69	631
11	Fonda	$18.52	636
12	Kanawha	$18.11	638
13	Swea City	$18.04	545
14	Greene	$17.91	971
15	Alden	$17.90	738
16	Dows	$17.70	509
17	New Hartford	$17.69	555
18	Lansing	$17.67	959
19	Strawberry Point	$17.58	1,141
20	Rockwell	$17.54	1,044
21	Walnut	$17.46	728
22	Murray	$17.44	609
23	Gowrie	$17.17	943
24	Colo	$17.14	856
25	Mapleton	$16.90	1,114
26	George	$16.89	1,106
27	Adair	$16.84	792
28	Eddyville	$16.82	965
29	Elk Horn	$16.78	631
30	Oxford	$16.70	715
31	Buffalo Center	$16.58	839
32	Bancroft	$16.52	677
33	Eldon	$16.42	788
34	Early	$16.35	571
35	Truro	$16.34	515
36	Aplington	$16.34	1,088
37	Panora	$16.14	1,096
38	Mechanicsville	$16.12	974
39	Armstrong	$15.87	847
40	Ruthven	$15.84	710
41	Minden	$15.77	581
42	Walker	$15.74	671
43	Newell	$15.49	850
44	Riceville	$15.31	807
45	Neola	$15.30	917
46	Sidney	$15.19	1,048
47	Gilbertville	$15.15	792
48	Stanwood	$15.12	612
49	Stratford	$15.03	688
50	Griswold	$15.01	975
51	Zearing	$14.99	508
52	Readlyn	$14.99	857
53	Wyoming	$14.81	526
54	Hopkinton	$14.79	622
55	Essex	$14.76	721
56	Dunlap	$14.56	1,030
57	Garnavillo	$14.52	751
58	Maxwell	$14.50	862
59	Clermont	$14.30	571
60	Moulton	$14.25	596
61	Mcgregor	$14.20	725
62	Olin	$14.19	652
63	Primghar	$14.18	893
64	Sheffield	$14.16	1,123
65	Elgin	$14.05	676
66	Ossian	$13.88	777
67	Redfield	$13.73	719
68	Victor	$13.72	852
69	Edgewood	$13.64	908
70	Sioux Rapids	$13.63	722
71	Donnellson	$13.63	859
72	Gladbrook	$13.58	775
73	Rockford	$13.52	722
74	Janesville	$13.43	1,052
75	Glidden	$13.43	1,140
76	Calmar	$13.39	1,100
77	Boyden	$13.39	694
78	Baxter	$13.32	983
79	Anita	$13.28	953
80	Van Horne	$13.27	768
81	Conrad	$13.23	1,098
82	Keota	$13.21	888
83	Shellsburg	$13.20	987
84	De Soto	$13.18	937
85	Quasqueton	$13.12	587
86	Farmington	$13.10	583
87	Anthon	$13.05	534
88	Treynor	$13.03	1,104
89	Odebolt	$13.00	967
90	Coggon	$12.99	691
91	Earlville	$12.90	713
92	Brighton	$12.88	592
93	Danville	$12.87	910
94	Underwood	$12.85	973
95	Malvern	$12.79	1,056
96	Montrose	$12.78	734
97	Goldfield	$12.73	617
98	Wellsburg	$12.68	709
99	Delmar	$12.68	541
100	Badger	$12.67	540
101	Stanton	$12.62	664
102	Hospers	$12.58	703
103	Everly	$12.51	570
104	Hazleton	$12.48	711
105	West Point	$12.39	903
106	Hinton	$12.38	959
107	Preston	$12.38	940
108	Alburnett	$12.30	672
109	Hubbard	$12.30	837
110	Moravia	$12.27	625
111	Hedrick	$12.22	717
112	Carson	$12.22	772
113	Wheatland	$12.18	765
114	Schaller	$12.14	702
115	Winfield	$12.04	1,006
116	Elkhart	$12.00	1,079
117	Afton	$11.96	864
118	Lowden	$11.93	767
119	Tabor	$11.88	983
120	Albert City	$11.88	627
121	Aurelia	$11.84	970
122	Merrill	$11.64	713
123	Morning Sun	$11.50	702
124	Battle Creek	$11.49	683
125	Wall Lake	$11.43	739
126	West Bend	$11.42	770
127	Dakota City	$11.39	764
128	Marcus	$11.31	1,069
129	Dunkerton	$11.30	840
130	Sutherland	$11.25	628
131	Arcadia	$11.23	588
132	Whiting	$11.21	725
133	Shelby	$11.17	730
134	Blairstown	$11.04	705
135	Manilla	$11.01	756
136	Hamburg	$10.95	863
137	Clarence	$10.94	991
138	Ireton	$10.93	571
139	Fontanelle	$10.88	684
140	Richland	$10.82	532
141	Grand Mound	$10.78	608
142	Cambridge	$10.53	844
143	Swisher	$10.39	909
144	Schleswig	$10.39	820
145	Melbourne	$10.38	771
146	Radcliffe	$10.37	540
147	Elk Run Heights	$10.33	1,061
148	Fredericksburg	$10.27	983
149	Ventura	$10.22	701
150	Inwood	$10.22	962
151	Milo	$10.20	762
152	Hartford	$10.16	729
153	What Cheer	$10.01	595
154	Newhall	$9.99	887
155	Cumming	$9.85	527
156	Graettinger	$9.81	810
157	Doon	$9.78	640
158	Long Grove	$9.59	849
159	Lake View	$9.39	1,120
160	Paullina	$9.21	979
161	Fairbank	$9.00	1,133
162	Winthrop	$8.94	814
163	Crescent	$8.72	626
164	Ainsworth	$8.62	511
165	Keosauqua	$8.58	944
166	Grand Junction	$8.57	715
167	Princeton	$8.24	917
168	Gilman	$8.10	530
169	Lakeside	$8.10	695
170	Kellogg	$8.10	597
171	Riverside	$8.02	1,063
172	Agency	$7.94	623
173	Hills	$7.94	911
174	Fremont	$7.86	688
175	Larchwood	$7.52	954
176	North English	$7.49	1,030
177	Sloan	$7.49	1,078
178	Sully	$7.41	891
179	Fruitland	$7.21	928
180	Lawton	$7.10	949
181	Wayland	$7.07	935
182	Raymond	$6.85	754
183	Keystone	$6.80	616
184	Shueyville	$6.79	725
185	Okoboji	$3.83	729

The $8.10 limit

Milo’s general levy is $7.67 per $1,000 of taxable value in FY27, $0.43 below the limit.⁴ 745 of 934 Iowa cities have a higher general levy. All cities.

$8.10

FY23 $8.10 · FY24 $8.10 · FY25 $7.98 · FY26 $7.90 · FY27 $7.67 (before FY25, the general levy alone)

Outside the limit: $2.53 more⁵

Total Employee Benefit Levies$1.36 · $36,268
Liability, property & self insurance costs$1.18 · $31,366

The city’s levies, FY27

What the city raises from each levy. The general levy is capped by state law; the others are set aside for one purpose.

Consolidate General Fund$204,76575%
Total Employee Benefit Levies$36,26813%
Liability, property & self insurance costs$31,36612%

Budget and spending

Reading a local budget

Where each dollar of Milo’s budget goes, FY26

Planned spending from all funds, including city-run utilities like water and sewer (“business type”), which some cities run and others don’t. Transfers between funds are left out. “Cities this size” is the average for the 184 Iowa cities closest in size (510–1,100 people).

Where it goes	Of each dollar	Cities this size (184)
Business Type / Enterprise	36¢	40¢
Debt Service	18¢	6¢
Public Works	12¢	16¢
Culture and Recreation	12¢	9¢
Public Safety	10¢	9¢
Everything else	13¢	18¢

Planned spending, FY27

All funds: property taxes, utility and other fees, state and federal money. “Business type” is city-run utilities and enterprises like water or sewer.

Culture and Recreation$202,26833%
Public Safety$186,82731%
Public Works$105,28817%
General Government$77,34913%
Debt Service$38,8566%
Health and Social Services$1,5000%

The state’s FY27 file doesn’t include business type / enterprise yet ($449,115 in FY26), so this total is low.

Budget compared with what it spent, FY23

Function	Budget	Spent
Public Works	$100,748	$107,469
Public Safety	$88,254	$150,198
Health and Social Services	$3,000	$1,395
General Government	$66,151	$71,737
Debt Service	$61,733	$0
Culture and Recreation	$129,700	$134,904
Community and Economic Development	$0	$2,024
Capital Projects	$84,561	$0
Business Type / Enterprise	$392,500	$1.5M

What it spent each year

FY24 left out⁶

$2.9M

State money

What the State of Iowa pays the city each year, and whether it has kept up with prices. Does state money keep pace? ⁷

What the state pays the city every year

Road Use Tax for streets, the commercial and industrial tax “backfill”, and ambulance reimbursement, paid every year by formula: $111,472 in FY25, up 10% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 12% less. Grants are below.

Show the numbers

Source	FY22	FY23	FY24	FY25
Road Use Tax (streets)	$107,471	$107,062	$109,895	$110,491
Commercial and industrial tax replacement (“backfill”)	$1,568	$1,372	$12,718	$981

Grants and project money

State grants and money for specific projects (roads, development, natural resources) vary with what the city applies for and wins, so they aren’t counted as the state’s regular support.

$513,645

Year	Grants and projects
FY19	$0
FY20	$0
FY21	$0
FY22	$0
FY23	$0
FY24	$513,645
FY25	$0

Show the numbers

Year	Grants and projects
FY19	$0
FY20	$0
FY21	$0
FY22	$0
FY23	$0
FY24	$513,645
FY25	$0

Has it kept up with prices?

Each source from FY19 to FY25, after inflation.

Road Use Tax (streets)−12%$100,119 → $110,491, up 10% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 12% less
Commercial and industrial tax replacement (“backfill”)−42%$1,344 → $981, down 27% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 42% less

Collected by the state for the city

The local option sales tax is a city tax voters approved; the state collects it with the state sales tax and sends it back. It isn’t state aid. It’s up 27% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 1% more.

$123,129

$122,833

Federal grants, for comparison: $56,893 in FY23.

Elections

Most recent: November 4, 2025

City · 1

Milo City Council At-Large

3 seats: the top 3 win.

Christina Rodgers Winner5747.5%
Daniel Kencade Amsden III Winner4940.8%
Eric Rasmussen Winner1411.7%

Local races from civicAPI and county auditors for Milo; official results are on each county auditor’s site.

Related places

At the Statehouse and in Congress⁸

Senate District 11 (vacant)Brooke Boden (Rep. 21)

U.S. House:District 1

Warren County Southeast Warren schools

Notes

For a $200,000 home with the homestead credit, at the combined rate in most of the city. Some parts of the city pay a different rate (special districts, tax increment financing districts). ↩
Cities adopt their budgets each spring for the year starting July 1. ↩
FY27 rates from the Department of Management. A higher rate isn’t always a bigger bill: it depends on how much property there is to tax. Sizes: Census Bureau 2024 estimates. ↩
Iowa Code section 384.1, as changed by House File 718 (2023). Until FY25 a city’s regular general levy was capped at $8.10 by itself, and a city at the cap could add an emergency levy of up to $0.27. From FY25 the general levy and several smaller levies were combined into one “consolidated” general levy with an $8.10 limit; a city whose combined rate was above $8.10 lowers it in steps, in years its taxable value grows by more than the law allows, until it reaches $8.10. So years before FY25 aren’t directly comparable with later ones. ↩
Levies outside the limit are each set aside for one purpose and have their own rules: debt service pays back bonds voters or the council approved, employee benefits cover pensions and insurance, and some (transit, an airport, insurance costs) have their own caps in state law. ↩
The state’s FY24 spending file repeats the year before for nearly every Iowa city, so that year isn’t shown. ↩
From the city’s annual financial reports to the state (Iowa Data Hub, city actual revenues). “Today’s dollars” adjusts each year by the consumer price index for the Midwest, so a flat line in today’s dollars means the money buys the same as before. ↩
Legislative and congressional districts that cover Milo; percentages are rough shares of its area. These lawmakers write the state laws and budget Milo works within. ↩

Sources: City budgets and levies from the Department of Management; tax rates from the Iowa Data Hub; state payments from the Department of Revenue; prices from the consumer price index; legislative districts from Census Bureau maps.

Milo

Who runs it

Meetings and agendas

Property taxes

Who gets a property owner’s tax bill in Milo

Rates over time

Compared with places this size3

The $8.10 limit

Outside the limit: $2.53 more5

The city’s levies, FY27

Budget and spending

Where each dollar of Milo’s budget goes, FY26

Planned spending, FY27

What it spent each year

State money

What the state pays the city every year

Grants and project money

Has it kept up with prices?

Collected by the state for the city

Elections

Most recent: November 4, 2025

Related places

At the Statehouse and in Congress8

Compared with places this size³

Outside the limit: $2.53 more⁵

At the Statehouse and in Congress⁸